Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

King James Version

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Holman Bible

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

International Standard Version

By this time, the earth had become ruined in God's opinion and filled with violence.

A Conservative Version

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

American Standard Version

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Amplified

The [population of the] earth was corrupt [absolutely depraved—spiritually and morally putrid] in God’s sight, and the land was filled with violence [desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power].

Bible in Basic English

And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

Darby Translation

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.

Julia Smith Translation

And the earth shall be corrupted to the face of God; and the earth shall be filled with violence.

King James 2000

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the earth [was] corrupted before God, and the earth was filled [with] violence.

Modern King James verseion

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and was full of mischief.

NET Bible

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

New Heart English Bible

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

The Emphasized Bible

And the earth corrupted itself before God, - and the earth was filled with violence,

Webster

The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.

World English Bible

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

and the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Hastings

Smith

Context Readings

God Warns Noah

10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Cross References

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Genesis 7:1

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.

Psalm 11:5

The LORDtests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Psalm 55:9

Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 140:11

Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

Isaiah 60:18

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Ezekiel 28:16

In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you,O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Hosea 4:1-2

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Habakkuk 1:2

O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

Habakkuk 2:17

The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

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